–Public Works officials say they saved more than $128,000 by doing the work.

–Town trucks (as many as 10 on some days) and workers were on the site for at least 13 days and did work that included reconstructing a road and parking lot and laying “roadway stabilization fabric,” according to documents from the Department of Public Works.

– Among the others who have requested fill, according to documents submitted by town officials, is Joe Mahan, father-in-law of the Democratic candidate for Supervisor, Paula Mahan.

The date and nature of the request are not included on records submitted to an investigative committee by the Latham Water District, nor does it say how much fill, if any, was received or what other work may have been done. The request comes in the form of a simple, one-page, fill-in-the-blank release authorizing town crews to go on land and dump fill at 445 Troy-Schenectady Road.

Paula Mahan has called for an independent investigation by District Attorney David Soares of the work at the club. She said she is not aware of her father-in-law (who is now living in a nursing home) receiving any fill and — even if he had in the past — her complaint is not with the town giving away free fill but that the work at the club, which counts several town officials among its members, appears to far exceed work that has been done anywhere else.

Mahan’s husband, Joe Mahan, served on the Town Board for seven years as a Republican before losing a 2001 challenge to Brizzell on the Democratic line.

So I have been catching this on the tube and the paper. Interesting stuff enough but the old thing of the same party investigating the same party and then issueing a finding of ,geez everything is just dandy, is not suprising I guess.
What is confusing to me is when I first saw this on Friday the Supervisor didn’t know anything about it and then the paper says she knew in Thursday, which is it? Then nothing is wrong or improper, and now it seems something was.
I hope the news folks don’t lose this as something doens’t seem quite right. I also hope the poor guy who gave the interview on TV doesn’t get fired as I am guessing he was just following his boss.

It seems the Maverick is a little confused about what happened, and that’s surprising since he/she seems to know a lot about the intimate details surrounding this situation.

Colonie officials instructed employees to construct a parking lot, two of them actually, as well as a long driveway at a private club. In the process the Town may have also dispensed of some clean fill that any resident or local business is encouraged to receive from the Town to aid in the disposal of such material. As long as the resident or business signs a hold harmless agreement that essentially states if the Town wrecks your property, well we were trying to do you a favor so we’re not going to be held liable if something goes wrong.

Hundreds of residents have taken the town up on this offer through the years. It’s a great program. Of those hundreds though none have had parking facilities created or driveways constructed for them.

Therein lies the problem, that anyone of reasonable intelligence, like say a child over the age of 9 or like say the Colonie Town Supervisor should be able to make the distinction between the two.

Your obvious obsession with Mary Brizzell aside, it is you who is completely uninformed which comes as no surprise.

The town saved close to a hundred thousand dollars on this project.

Now you being uninformed, will preach the News Channel 13 idiocy that the Town of Colonie doesn’t have to pay because they own the dump. But the true story is even though they own the dump, its illegal under GAAP(which you can google to figure out what that is)for the Town of Colonie not to pay for the fill space taken up.

I’d get into more detail with you, but its obvious you’re a partisan who hates town republicans while simultaneously defending Paula Mahan.

Mav so what your saying is if we make money, which I kinda doubt, its ok even if it might not be legal? So where do you draw the line? Who’s decides what size is no longer good and just an FYI now that I am really reading about this it looks as if the guy that oversees the place put out a memo that basically makes what they did a no no.
Not good.

I’d like somebody to explain to me how the town saved close to 100,000.00 on this project in a way that makes sense. I don’t understand how the town saved money when they spent all of this time, effort and materiel, when they would have all of that money if they did not do this work.